Dead woman kept in Montreal North house
This is a weird one. Two brothers living in Montreal North are alleged to have kept the dead body of a missing Inuit woman on a sofa in their living room for six months. The journalists suggest that the men may have mental troubles but there’s no suggestion of homicide.
TS 22:36 on 2023-11-07 Permalink
That is so sad, disgusting, and weird. Maybe I missed it but wouldn’t the body decompose and smell extremely, extremely bad (they did mention a bad smell in the article) but I thought it would be unbearable). I know of someone whose parent was found dead in their apartment recently and it was because other tenants in the building complained of a horrible smell….I was also told that it took a DNA test to confirm identity as the body had decomposed to a point where you could not recognize the individual.
Blork 18:51 on 2023-11-08 Permalink
I was wondering that too. (And it is a particular smell, and once you smell it, wow you cannot un-smell it.) That said, we occasionally hear about bodies basically mummifying when left unattended, but I think that only happens under certain circumstances, like very dry air.